Irish Tanks and Armoured Cars That Need Adding to War Thunder

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00:00So initially, I'd hoped to leave this video until I had sent off for my Irish passport,

00:05but as it's taken a little bit longer than I hoped for, I figured now is as good a time

00:10as any to look at the Irish tanks I would like to see added to War Thunder.

00:15This episode will deal purely with the actual tanks used by Ireland, with a future episode

00:19to cover the various armoured cars used by Ireland, and honestly, I think you could get

00:24a small sub-tree out of the various Irish tanks and armoured cars, though I could also

00:28see some of these being added as premium or event vehicles as well.

00:32Like with the other Irish vehicles already in the game, like the Laorla Corvette and the

00:37Vickers Mark 11, which is based on the Irish Timoni APC, these would probably be added to

00:43the British tech tree, but they could also fit into other tech trees if required.

00:48So for the first two tanks, we will be looking at the Vickers Medium Mark D and the Landsferk

00:53L60, with tanks of these two designs being brought by Ireland in the interwar period,

00:59and were the only tanks Ireland had available for the interwar and world war 2 period.

01:04So starting with the Vickers Medium Mark D, this was a one-off design, which was essentially

01:09an offshoot of the Vickers Medium Mark 2, and of which only one example was produced, which

01:15was the one that went to Ireland.

01:16Like with the Vickers Medium Mark 2, it is very lightly armoured, with the armour maxing

01:22out at 8mm thick, so useless against almost any incoming fire, including heavy calibre machine

01:28guns and possibly even lower calibre machine guns.

01:32And due to being built in the 1920s, it unfortunately doesn't have the best speed, maxing out at around

01:3820mph or 32kmh, while having a crew of 5.

01:42Moving on to the main armament, the gun was a bit of a mixed bag, as it was a quick

01:47-firing

01:4857mm 6-pounder gun, though not to be confused with the later quick-firing 57mm 6-pounder gun

01:55of World War 2 fame.

01:56I haven't been able to find any concrete penetration figures for against tanks or armour, but comparing

02:03it to the 3-pounder on the Vickers Independent tanking game, it should have a slightly lower

02:07muzzle velocity at 554m a second versus 563m a second for the 3-pounder.

02:15So we are likely looking at a gun that will do around 30-35mm penetration at 500m, which

02:22isn't great to be honest, though not the worst penetration figure in the world either.

02:27In addition to this, it also had four 7.7mm machine guns at various points around the tank,

02:33which will help against unarmoured vehicles, but probably isn't going to change your odds

02:37of success too much.

02:38When introduced into Irish service, it was used to give troops a chance to train on how

02:44to operate and work alongside tanks, though as you might guess, as it was literally the

02:49only tanking island at the time, it would have been of limited use, and would probably have

02:54been easily outmatched in combat.

02:57Though unfortunately the tank was destroyed in an accident in 1940, so it wouldn't have had

03:01a chance to prove itself anyway.

03:03In game I would suggest placing it at a battle rating of 1.0 or possibly lower, like with

03:08my suggested battle rating system for WW1 and interwar tanks that I covered in a previous

03:13episode, and while not the best tank in the world, I think it would mark a good start for

03:18an Irish subtree, or just act as a decent Irish tank in general at the very early battle ratings.

03:25A few years after acquiring the Mark D, Ireland would be interested in acquiring more tanks,

03:30this time the Swedish Landsverk L60, of which two would be brought and shipped to Ireland,

03:36bringing the total tank force to three tanks, with the more modern L60s being far more mobile

03:42and versatile than the rather outdated and slow Mark D. Like with the Mark D, these would

03:47be used to train troops, and they survived in service until 1968, giving a whopping 34 years

03:53of service, and both examples survive to this day.

03:57Now this tank is already in War Thunder in the Swedish tech tree under the name STRV M38,

04:03at battle rating 1.0, but there are some differences compared to the examples acquired by Ireland,

04:09as the Irish tanks were equipped with a 20mm Madsen cannon instead of the 37mm Bofors gun.

04:15This gives a much faster firing rate, but less penetration.

04:18With the 20mm Madsen cannons having a penetration of 25mm at 175m, compared to the 37mm Bofors

04:27guns, 55mm penetration at 100m.

04:31The rest of the stats and battle rating would be the same, so a maximum armour of 13-15mm,

04:38a top speed of 47kmh or 29mph, and a crew of 3 at a battle rating of 1.0.

04:45This would be a good upgrade from the Vickers medium Mark D, giving Irish players a much

04:50more mobile vehicle with a much faster firing weapon, and just generally making a very good

04:55upgrade from the slow and less well armed Mark D.

04:59By the outbreak of World War 2, Ireland only had the three tanks that we've covered with

05:04which to defend itself, and as mentioned at the beginning this was quickly reduced to

05:08just the two L60s, when the Vickers medium Mark D was destroyed in an accident in 1940.

05:14Though again, it's very hard to imagine this rather old and outdated tank being useful against

05:19a modern enemy, so this probably wasn't such a huge loss on that front.

05:24Ireland did acquire brain carriers and standard beaverette armoured cars to complement its tank

05:30and armoured car forces, but these still would have been inadequate to defence Ireland's

05:34neutrality in the event of an invasion. Due to the war, Ireland wasn't able to acquire

05:39any more tanks, but in the post-war period it rented four Churchill Mark 6s, these being

05:45labelled 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D, with all four of these arriving by 1949, and later being brought

05:52outright in 1954. For the most part there was very little change to these tanks, with even

05:58the paint scheme being kept the same, as there was a stipulation when they were being rented

06:02that they would be returned to Britain immediately if required, so they were basically banned from

06:07making any changes to them. Though of course this would change once they were brought.

06:12However, one of these tanks would later get stuck at the training ground, where they would

06:17conduct gunnery tests, and basically Ireland didn't have any heavy equipment with which

06:22to remove it. And so what they did instead was just remove the gun and return it to the

06:27tank whenever they had to do gunnery tests. And eventually when it was decommissioned in

06:311967, instead of recovering the tank they decided to simply bury it. Though it was finally recovered

06:37in 2003, and now stands in Dunmore Park in Belfast. The rest of the tanks were retired in 1969,

06:45primarily due to a lack of parts and the arrival of the more modern Comet tanks. Unfortunately,

06:51the Churchill Mark 6s are not currently in War Thunder, so this would need to be produced

06:55by Gaijin, but essentially it is a slight upgrade from the previous Churchill Mark 4s, being armed

07:01with the quick-firing 75mm gun, a new cupola and applique armour fitted to the hull sides.

07:08So this shouldn't be too difficult a tank to implement in War Thunder. However, a lack

07:13of spares for the original engines for the Mark 6 would result in a rather unique variant

07:18of the Churchill tank, as it was proposed to replace the original 350hp Bedford engines,

07:24with the 600hp Rolls Royce Merlin engines from the Supermarine Sea firefighters, which were

07:30used by Ireland at the time. Tests were conducted with one of the new engines fitted to one of

07:35the tanks, but for whatever reason this would not be adopted for the rest of the Mark 6s.

07:41But of course in War Thunder this variant could be added as an interesting event vehicle, giving

07:46us a Churchill with much better acceleration and potentially a greater top speed, which would

07:52help to fix the major issue of the Churchill tanks which is its slow speed, and giving Ireland a

07:57rather unique and powerful variant of the Churchill tank and, like I say, it just would be a rather

08:02unique tank in general. After the Churchill Mark 6s, the next major tank adopted by Ireland would be

08:08the A34 Comet, with eight of these entering service by 1960. This was a much more modern and mobile vehicle

08:17than the Ponderous Churchill tanks, and again there were no major changes undertaken to these

08:21tanks, so they would operate much like the Comets already in the British Tech Tree at battle rating

08:265.3. However, there would be one major variant that would come about due to an accident destroying

08:32the turret of one of the Comets, as while the turret was destroyed, the hull was intact, leading

08:37to the installation of a borrowed 90mm recoilless rifle on the turret ring. This allowed a 360 degree

08:44arc of fire, though extra armour had to be installed around areas leading to the driver and bow machine

08:50gun positions, to mitigate against the effects of backblast when firing the weapon. Unfortunately,

08:56the turret itself is now completely exposed, leaving the gunner vulnerable to enemy fire,

09:02especially from the air. The 90mm recoilless rifle however would be an extremely effective weapon,

09:08which depending on the source used has a penetration of at least 330 to 380mm when firing heat shells,

09:16which is a pretty damn good performance and far superior to the Comets original gun. Unfortunately,

09:22in real life this modification would not be permanent, and the recoilless rifle was uninstalled and returned

09:28to infantry service, but in War Thunder this could make a highly mobile and effective tank destroyer,

09:34able to quickly traverse the battlefield before unleashing devastating fire from its new main weapon. Its only

09:41downside is the exposed fighting compartment, making it especially vulnerable to enemy aircraft and

09:47ground machine gun fire. Perhaps a new feature for this tank would be to give the player the ability

09:52for the gunner or other gun crew to duck inside the hull when not in combat, which would help to

09:58improve

09:58protection when not in combat, and could be offset by giving a delay for re-manning the main weapon. But

10:04I

10:04suspect such a feature would not be added. As for the battle rating, I think this could go at around

10:096.0 or 6.3,

10:11where its gun wouldn't be too overpowered and it would still be able to deal with most enemies,

10:16and in general I think this would be a rather unique and pretty cool vehicle to have available for Irish

10:22players. Last but not least, we come to the FV101 Scorpion, which was a British light tank of which 14

10:29were

10:29acquired by Ireland in the 1980s. I have covered this tank in a previous episode on British light tanks,

10:36and for the most part very few changes have been made to the Irish variants, with the main weapon

10:42still being a 76mm gun, firing a HES shell with 80-90mm penetration, as well as smoke, shrapnel,

10:49HE and illumination shells. It also has a coaxial 7.62mm machine gun, a crew of three, extremely light armour,

10:57and a ridiculous top speed of 45mph or 72kmh, which also means it holds the world record for the

11:05fastest production tank. However, there is one noticeable change to the Irish variant in that

11:10it can carry a machine gun on the roof, which initially was a .50 cal branding machine gun,

11:15though this was later changed to a 7.62mm GPMG machine gun, mainly due to the large silhouette of

11:22the .50 cal weapon. This could perhaps be added as a vehicle modification, allowing you to switch

11:28between the two weapons, or maybe remove them entirely to aid in concealment. Like with the

11:34British Scorpion tank, I would suggest adding this at a better rating of around 6.0, mainly on account of

11:40its HES shell, because while the HES shell only has 80-90mm penetration, this is not affected by

11:46sloping, so you could still take out T-34s and Panther tanks relatively easily, but more heavily

11:52armoured tanks would be mostly immune against the Scorpion tank, so I think battle rating 6.0 would be

11:59a fairly good place for it to go, though its battle rating could be lowered or raised as required.

12:05So that is all of the various Irish tanks I think should be added to War Thunder. I think out

12:11of all of

12:11these, the Headless Coachmen or the Churchill Mark VI with the Merlin engine are probably the ones I'd

12:17be looking forward to the most, as these are rather cool and unique variants that we can't really get

12:23in other tech trees, and I think they would be a major boon to War Thunder in general. Today we'll

12:29be

12:29looking at the various Irish armoured cars I'd like to see added to War Thunder, with these ranging from

12:35relatively simple designs from the interwar period all the way to the cutting edge vehicles of the

12:41cold war and modern era. So Ireland had first started using armoured cars pretty much all the

12:47way back to its inception, or at least the Irish Civil War, and this started with the Rolls-Royce

12:54armoured car, but unfortunately these early designs were armed solely with machine guns which makes

13:00them rather unsuitable to be added to War Thunder. So we will actually be starting with the Leyland

13:05Armoured Car, also referred to as the Armoured Vehicle ALV-1 or Leyland ALV-1, which came about during

13:13the 1930s as Ireland looked at replacing some of its earlier armoured cars like the Peerless.

13:20Unfortunately the budget for this work was limited, which meant having to reuse the armour plate and

13:25twin turrets from the now obsolete Peerless armoured car in order to keep the costs down.

13:30The old turrets and armour were fitted to a Leyland Terrier TE2 lorry chassis, which despite being a

13:38civilian design had been produced to specifications laid out by the British War Office, meaning it was

13:44designed to be used in areas with poor roads and limited access to maintenance facilities which gave

13:50it an advantage over other civilian designs. The first vehicle was finished in September 1934,

13:57but due to issues with the twin turrets from the Peerless, it was decided to try and acquire an

14:03alternative turret, which led to the purchase and fitting of four turrets from the Landsverk L60

14:08light tank, which was a Swedish light tank of which two were already in service in Ireland.

14:14This gave the Leyland a much better armament compared to the previous twin turret configuration

14:19which had only had machine guns, while the new L60 turrets allowed the installation of a 20mm Madsen

14:26cannon, which had a penetration of 32mm at 500m, which is a pretty decent performance for a 1930s

14:33armoured car, plus it still had the coaxial machine gun so it didn't really lose anything here,

14:39so this was just an overall gain for the vehicle. The turret also had the advantage of slightly

14:45improving the overall protection of the vehicle, as the turret had a maximum armour thickness of 15mm for

14:51the mantlet and 13mm for the rest of the turret, which compares to only 8mm for the whole of the

14:58vehicle itself, which isn't really even able to stop heavy or even potentially light calibre machine

15:03guns, and does make the four man crew somewhat vulnerable to hull penetrations. The Leyland would

15:10go on to serve all throughout the war and would be upgraded in the 1950s, which included the replacement

15:16of its coaxial Madsen machine gun with a browning machine gun, plus another one being fitted in the

15:21hull, as well as remodelling of the frontal hull to be more like the Swedish Landsverk L180, which was

15:27also in Irish service. But more importantly, it was fitted with a Ford V8 engine, which gave the vehicle

15:34a top speed of 45mph or 72kmph. In this form, the Leylands would survive in service until the 1980s,

15:42rendering nearly 50 years of service. When added to War Thunder, I think both the original and refit models

15:49could be added at tier 1, battle rating 1.0 or possibly even 1.3, and due to their fast

15:55speed and decent

15:55armament, I think they could be a really useful addition for an Irish subtree. On a quick side note,

16:02Ireland did attempt a similar concept to the Leyland with the Dodge Mark 7 and Mark 8, with these being

16:07based on the Dodge TF37 truck chassis. Though only the Mark 7 actually had any anti-tank weaponry,

16:14and this was in the form of the 20mm Madsen. Only 5 of these were built in both variants,

16:20and they served from the early 1940s till the early 1960s, and don't seem to have been as successful as

16:26the Leyland design. And the Dodge Mark 7 is basically very similar to the Leyland, so like I said,

16:31has the same armament, same speed, crew complement and protection. So this would probably be surplus

16:37to requirements for an Irish subtree, but it could still be added as a unique premium or event vehicle,

16:43at again, battle rating 1.0 or 1.3, or possibly even folded with the Leyland to help bolster Irish

16:49lineups. But while the Leyland armoured cars were successful and had a long service life,

16:54it had taken from March 1934 to July 1939 to build all four vehicles, which was clearly an unacceptable

17:01rate of production. Thus, for the next armoured cars it was decided to buy some off-the-shelf vehicles,

17:08leading to Ireland ordering a number of Landsverk L180 armoured cars, which is a vehicle we have covered

17:14many, many, many times on this channel due to its being sold to many different nations in many

17:19different configurations. In Ireland's case, it was armed with the 20mm Madsen cannon, capable of

17:26penetrating 32mm of armour at 500m, and two Madsen machine guns, one in the coaxial position and one

17:33in the bow, while the armour maxed out at around 15mm for the turret mantlet and 9mm for the hull.

17:39With regards to speed, it could reach a top speed of 50mph or 80kmh and it had a crew of

17:455,

17:46which included a front and rear driver, gunner, commander and loader. Ireland would order 8 of

17:52these vehicles before WW2 and would go on to order a further 5 in 1939, but due to the outbreak

17:59of WW2,

18:00this order would be kept in Sweden and instead used by the Swedish Army. And this was especially

18:06problematic because a large quantity of spare parts had been included in this order, and so

18:11maintenance would become much harder in the coming years. This also probably explains why Ireland

18:17commenced production on the Dodge Mark 7 and Mark 8, because they had to make up for the shortfall in

18:22L-180s. The L-180s would serve throughout WW2, and much like with the Leylands, the L-180s would go

18:29on

18:29to have a long service life after the war, and again would receive many upgrades, such as new radios,

18:35Ford V8 engines, and Browning machine guns to replace the Madsen machine guns. Interestingly,

18:41unlike the Leylands, in the 1970s two of the L-180s would get a new main armament, with the 20mm

18:47Madsen cannon replaced with a 20mm Hispano Suiza, taken from the now scrapped de Havilland Vampire

18:54Fighters. These 20mm cannons would have a penetration of around 25mm at 500m when firing APT shells, which is

19:03less than the 20mm Madsen cannon, but this is offset by a faster rate of fire, albeit this would mean

19:09chewing through your ammo extremely quickly. As for the Ford engines, I believe they would give

19:13about the same speed as on the Leyland armoured cars, so about 45mph at 72kmph, which is still

19:20pretty speedy if a little slower than before. When added to War Thunder, I could see the L-180 being

19:25added at battery rating 1.3 just after the Leylands, while the upgraded variant could either be an event

19:31vehicle or folded with the L-180s, with both variants able to quickly get around the battlefield and

19:37hit enemies with hard hitting or fast firing weapons, depending on the variant used. And

19:42it would be nice to see the L-180 finally added to War Thunder, especially considering how many

19:47nations used it. So unfortunately, that's it for the World War 2 armoured cars, and while we do have

19:53some very decent vehicles here, they are only really suited for a tier 1 and are all quite similar to

19:59each other in regards to stats. But moving on to the Cold War period, we now get a whole slew

20:04of

20:04modern designs. Mostly foreign-built vehicles, but there are a few domestically produced vehicles

20:10that could be introduced, with these being produced by the Timoney Company and designed by Seamus Timoney,

20:16who was an engineer who worked at Elvis in Britain, that company of course producing the Elvis,

20:21Saladin and Saracen armoured cars. The first of these domestic vehicles is the Timoney

20:26Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle 4x4 Mark 1, which was fitted with the same 76mm gun as on the British

20:33Scorpion light tank, and this fires a Heschel with 82-90mm penetration, and has a crew of 3.

20:41Unfortunately, other stats aren't really available, though no doubt it would be a fast but lightly

20:46armoured vehicle, and according to some sources, while only two of these prototypes were built in

20:51Ireland, this vehicle apparently did go into production in Tanzania, though again, sources

20:56on this are somewhat scarce. All in all, the ARV Mark 1 would be a perfectly serviceable vehicle at

21:03around battle rating 5.3, especially since its Heschel ignores the effects of sloping, and so it would

21:09happily fill in any tier 3 or 4 gaps in an Irish subtree, while giving a massive upgrade from the

21:15previous

21:15armoured cars, and a different playstyle from the Irish tanks that would be included on the subtree.

21:21There is also the Timoney APC Mark 6, which was tested with a turret fitted with a 90mm gun,

21:27essentially making this an Irish version of the Vickers Mark 11, which was also based on a Timoney APC.

21:34The 90mm weapon should perform broadly the same as on the French AML-90, so 320mm penetration with

21:42HEAT FS shells. It had a top speed of 65mph or 105km an hour, but this was without the turret

21:49so no

21:49doubt some speed would be lost, while the armour thickness would be extremely light, making it

21:54vulnerable to enemy fire. Its original crew without the turret was 2, though I believe it should be

22:01around 3 with the turret, though 10 soldiers could also be carried, allowing the crew to be bumped up as

22:07required. This seems to be a decent vehicle for around battle rating 7.0-7.6, giving Irish players

22:14a far harder hitting vehicle than the ARV Mark 1, albeit with some overlap with the AML-90 which would

22:21also be available for the Irish subtree. But for players looking to use just domestically produced

22:27vehicles, this will probably be preferred to the French vehicle. Unfortunately, most Timoney armoured

22:34vehicles generally weren't fitted with anti-tank weapons outside of tests and prototypes, so there

22:40are limited domestic options other than the two we just looked at. Thankfully Ireland also used many

22:45foreign designs, giving us a wide variety of foreign vehicles that could be added to an Irish subtree.

22:52To start off this list of foreign vehicles we have the French Panhard AML-60, which started off as the

22:59AML-67CS which was armed with a 60mm CS mortar, but this was later changed to a 60mm HB mortar.

23:09Despite being a mortar, it could be used in the direct fire role, and the HB mortar was able to

23:15fire both heat and APFS-DS rounds, with the heat round able to penetrate 200mm of armour, and the APFS

23:22-DS

23:22round able to penetrate 20mm of armour at a 45 degree angle at 1000m, making this a surprisingly

23:29decent vehicle for anti-tank work, especially when using the heat round, though the APFS-DS round may

23:35struggle a little bit. Also, as this is a mortar weapon, it does have an elevation of minus 15 to

23:41plus 80 degrees, meaning that a skilled player can use this weapon in the indirect fire role, potentially

23:47catching some players off guard, or allowing the bombardment of choke points or enemies behind

23:52cover. Other than that, it has a pretty good top speed of 56mph or 90kmh, a crew of 3, and

23:59a maximum

23:59armour thickness of 12mm, so definitely more suited to the reconnaissance and ambush role. As for the

24:06battle rating, I would suggest placing it at around battle rating 5.3 or 5.7, as its heat shell

24:12would have

24:13the same penetration as the Soviet PT-76 at 5.3, though the APFS-DS round might struggle a bit,

24:20so maybe just having the heat round available could be a way around this.

24:25Like with the previous armoured cars, the AML-60s would be upgraded, and have experiments carried

24:31out on them over the years, with the vehicles eventually becoming the Panhard AML-20, which

24:36involved the replacement of the old petrol engine with a Peugeot diesel engine, the addition of a new

24:42GI-2 20mm cannon to replace the 60mm mortar, and the introduction of an upgraded fire control system,

24:50which included a laser rangefinder. Unfortunately, it would be hard to take advantage of the laser

24:56rangefinder due to the 20mm cannon's anaemic performance, being only capable of penetrating

25:01around 37mm at 500m with HVAP rounds, meaning players would probably be forced to engage in

25:09flanking attacks at close range. Personally, I can't see this vehicle going any higher than 5.3,

25:15and possibly even lower, which funnily enough would also make this the lowest ranked vehicle

25:20with a laser rangefinder, as we don't see it appearing on other vehicles until rank 5 or battle

25:26rating 7.3. Potentially it could be used in conjunction with other vehicles with longer ranged

25:31guns, with the AML-20 providing ranging information for these vehicles, but I can't see this being a

25:37rewarding strategy for players using the AML-20, so I suspect hit and run attacks would be its main

25:43strength. In addition to the GI-2 20mm, there were tests conducted with other weaponry, with one AML

25:50being fitted with a 25mm Bushmaster, and another fitted with the 30mm Raden cannon as used on the

25:57British Scimitar light tank. Both of these weapons have much better penetration than the regular GI-2,

26:03with the AP-DS round on the 25mm Bushmaster and 30mm Raden cannon, capable of penetrating 74 and 95mm

26:12of armour at 500m respectively. These two variants could be added as premium or event vehicles,

26:18or potentially even have these weapons available as modifications on the regular AML-20, much like

26:25with the recently added TOG-2. These weapon choices would give even more variety to Irish vehicles,

26:32allowing players a wide choice of fast firing weapons, which could all be used on the same

26:37chassis, giving players a familiar vehicle to work with. So as you can see there are many many variants

26:43to choose from with regards to the AML-60 and AML-20, but for those of you looking for something

26:49with a

26:50bit more punch, there is thankfully the Panhard AML-90, which is virtually the same as the AML-60 but

26:57is

26:57fitted with a 90mm gun, and this vehicle is handily already in War Thunder in the French tech tree.

27:04However, the Irish variant was upgraded with a new diesel engine and the same fire control system as

27:10used on the AML-20, which remember gives it access to a laser rangefinder, which is something the

27:16original AML-90 does not have access to, meaning the Irish variant would represent a massive upgrade

27:22compared to the French variant. This could result in a slightly higher battle rating from the original

27:27AML-90's 7.3 to maybe 7.6, but it would give Ireland a very unique variant of this vehicle

27:34to

27:34differentiate it from the original French variant, and I can see this being a very successful vehicle

27:40in an Irish sub-tree. So having looked at many many Irish armoured cars, both domestic and foreign,

27:47we've finally come to the Moag Piranha 3H Medium Reconnaissance Vehicle, or MRV, which is a vehicle

27:54designed by the Swiss Moag company. In Irish service, the MRV variant is armed with the 30mm ATK Bushmaster

28:02II Mark 44 cannon, which is already in-game on vehicles like the CV-9030 Thin, where it has a

28:09penetration of 110mm at 500m with APFSDS rounds, but only 81mm at the same distance with its stock

28:17APDS rounds. It also comes with two 7.62mm machine guns, has a crew of three consisting of a driver,

28:24commander and gunner, though six troops can also be carried. I suspect armour protection would be

28:30roughly on par with other vehicles of this type, so proof against smaller calibre weapons at a few

28:35hundred metres distance, but extremely vulnerable to regular main battle tanks. But thankfully it

28:41also has a very high top speed of 62mph or 100kmh, meaning this fast moving vehicle should be able to

28:49avoid most heavy enemies and quickly deal with them by attacks on their flanks, as well as still being

28:55used in the traditional reconnaissance role, allowing other more heavily armoured vehicles to deal with

29:01enemies that you perhaps can't deal with. I could see this going at battle rating 9.0 or higher,

29:06and this would be the most modern of the Irish vehicles added to the game, and while it maybe

29:11does lack a little in overall hitting power compared to contemporary vehicles with larger calibre weapons,

29:17I think it would still be a pretty fun vehicle to top out an Irish subtree. So that is all

29:23of the Irish

29:23armoured cars I would like to see added to War Thunder. So I hope you've enjoyed that episode on

29:29Irish Armoured Cars, but like I say hopefully you'll join me for the next episode regardless.

29:33I've been Toreno, and I'll see you next time.

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